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Happy ARPANet-Goes-Online-in-1969 Day for those who celebrate!

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet), the first wide-area packet-switching  network, made its first successful computer-to-computer connection on Oct. 29, 1969. Unlike some earlier conceptions of the network, it was  intended to serve the needs of academic researchers, not … Continue reading

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